Internal-combustion engine.



P. OSTENBERG.

INTERNAL comsusnom ENGINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB- 2, I914. 1,137,857.Patented May l, 1915.

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INTERNAL comsusnom ENGINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, I914.

Patented May 4, 1915.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, 1914.

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Application filed February 2, 15M. genial No. 815,932.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known.- that I, Ponros Qsreucuec, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Gates, in the county of Santa Clare and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Internal-Combustion Engine.

My invention relates to internal combustion engines.

One object of my invention isto provide an internal combustion engine inwhich a mass of liquid is used as a piston, the same being driven out ofthe cylinders under pressure of gas explosion and caused to revolve in acircular chamber, and in which the kinetic energy of said revolvingliquid is utilized to operate a driving shaft.

Another object of my invention is to produce an internal combustionengine in Which a revolving, pulsating mass of liquid in o.-

circularchamber is utilized to supply the explosion chambers with oil,air, or an explosive mixture, said liquid acting under pressure of gasexplosion.

i iuother object is to produce an internal combustion engine in which arevolving, pulsating mess of liquid in a circular cham her is utilizedto draw tluiclinto said circular chamber and discharge the sametherefrom, said revolving liquid acting under pressure of gas explosion.

Another object of my invention is topic duce an internal combustionengine that may be economicall y constructed, simple in operation,efiicient and durable, and one which may be adapted to any purpose wherepower is required.

\Vith these and other objects in view, the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter morefully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, itbeing; understood that changes in the specific structure shown anddescribed may be made within the scope of the claims without departingfrom the spirit of the invention.

in the drawings forming a part of this specification and in which likenumerals of reference indicate similar parts in the sevcrul. views,Figure l is a front elevation of my internal combustion engine. Fig.2 isa sectional view on line o r-A of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlargedsectional view on line BB of Fig. 2. Fig. sis a vertical cross sectionof' another embodiment of my invention.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, willproceed to descr oe the manner which i have carried it out.

rivi ng shaft is shown at 3 having a packing not shown 3 and aiiy wheelshown at the top thereof at 3*. Keyed the lower end of said shaft isdisk wheel The extreme lower end of said shaft 3 is held in place bystep hearing 3", bolted. to said body portion 1 by bolts'l Said dishwheel 1' is made cast iron or any other suitable material carrying atits plurality oi circular disks 5, said disks heir g made of sheet metalof the required width and thickness, and are from explosion chamberhlear the top of cylinders 2 and 2 and at one side thereof are hotba.lls8 connecting With explosion chao'ibers '1' by ports The lower part ofsaid ports 9 is made dishing in shape for the purpose of retaining aportion of the oil which vaporizes by the heat from l1ot-bulls 8 justahead of the compression. At the top of cylinders 2 and 2 and connectingwith explosion chambers 7 are located air intzke valves 10. The amountof air adu'iitted through said valves being governed by springs 11. Nearthe top of cylinder 2 and connecting with explosion chamber 7 iscartridge chamber 13. Vacuum pump connection is shown at ll, plug valveshown at 15 for the purpose of closing said connection after thevucuuu'i is formed. A distance. below the top oi said cylinders and 2are shown olisets in which a pli'uality of exhaust valves 16 are shown.Said valves have un'upper seat shown at 1 3. and :1.

lower 'sea-t shown at 16*, and are balanced in such a manner as to allowthe exhausted gases to escape until the liquid reaches and closes saidvalves, said liquid passing on up to compression. Liquid valve 17 is forthe purpose of admitting liquid to cylinders 2 and 2, gage valve 18 isfor the purpose of designating the height of liquid in said cylinders 2and 2*. Air intake is shown at 19, air intake valves are shown at 20closed by spring 21. Disk wheel chamber is shown at 22, air storagechamber is shown at 23. Check valve admitting air from chamber 22 tochamber 23 is shown at 24. Air pipes leading from air chamber 23 tointake valves 10 are shown at 25.

Oil supply cylinders are shown at 26 attached and connecting withcylinders 2 arfd 2 by ports 27. On the inside ofsaid oil supplycylinders are valves 28 resting on valve seats 29. On the upper end ofvalve stem is float 30, which is for the purpose of opening and closingsaidvalves 28 as the liquid is driven in and drawn out by each explosionin chamber 7 through ports 27. At the side and near the top of said oilsupfr ly cylinders 26 are oil intake connections o. leading to a tank ofoil supply not shown, said connections 31 being supplied with ballvalves At the top oiisaid oil supply cylinders are chambers 33, saidchambers being supplied with ball valves ,34. Con nectcd to saidchambers 33 are oil pipes 35 leading to ports 9 in front of hot-balls 8.Gage valves are shown at 35 attached to pipes 35 which are for thepurpose ofregulating the amount of oil fed to ports 9. Lower liquidoutlets leading from chamber 22 to cylinders 2' and 2 are shown at 36.Valves 37 are for the purpose of preventing liquid from passing fromcylinders 2 and 2 through liquid outlets 36 to chambers 22. Lever 38pivoted to casting 39 and connected to valve stem 11 and firing rod 40is for the purpose of holdingvalve 10 up against its seat while thevacuum is being formed in compression chamber 7 and also for the pur-'pose of firing cartridge 41 in chamber 13.

. 4 is another embodiment of my internal combustion engine, with drivingshaft 3 and disk wheel 4 removed from chamber 22. The explosion inchamber 7 causes the liquid to be driven through port 6, the angle ofsaid port being such as to direct the liquid in a circular course aroundchamber 22, when the centrifugal force of said liquid travelingaround'said chamber 22 forces said liquid to ascend in said cylinder 2it thereby causes a suction in the center of said chamber 22 and drawsin more liquid through pipe 42 and valve 43, and the following explosiondrives the surplus liquid out through valve 44 into discharge pipe 45thus drawing in and discharging fluid at every pulsation of the engine.

The operation of my internal combustion engine is as follows ;Chamber 22andcylinders 2 and 2 are filled with liquid through liquid valve 17 upto a level with liquid valve 18. A cartridge 41 is inserted in cartridgechamber 13. A vacuum pump is now ber 7 of cylinder 2, air beingprevented from entering cylinder 2 through valve 10 by pressing down onthe handleof lever 38.

Cartridge 41 is now fired, thus drivingthe fluid in chamber 2 throughport 6 against, or rather between, disks '5' into chamber 22, the angleof port 6 being such as to direct the fluid in a circular course aroundthe chamber 22 thus causing. disks 5 to revolve and causing shaft 3 andpulley wheel 3? to rotate. The same explosion drives a portion of theliquid through passage 27 and valve 28 into the oil supply chamber 26 tofloat 30, this chamber being previously supplied with oil through oilsupply pipe 31. The sudden discharge of liquid into said chamber drivesthe required amount of oil out through the discharge pipe 35 into thereceiver in port 9 of cylinder 2. The centrifugal force of the revolvingliquid in chamber 22 forces it outwardly into cylinders 2 and 2 thustending to form a vacuum in chamber 22 and consequently drawing in airthrough valve 19. As the liquid rises in cylinder 2 valves 16 are forcedopen sufficiently to allow the exhaust to pass out therethrough, but areclosed by the liquid when the same reaches them and stay closed untilthe force of the ensuing explosion is spent. When the liquid passes thelevel of valves 16 it compresses the air forced in through valves 10after the previous explosion, the compressing air driving the oil in thereceiver in port 9 of cylinder 2 into the hot-ball 8, where it isvaporized and exploded when the proper compression is reached, Therevolving liquid in chamber 22 not only drives shaft 3,

draws in air through valve 19 and discharges the same into chamber 23where it 1s fed into explosion chamber 7 through pipe .25 and valves 10,alternate inaction.

it will work equally as well when a gas and air mixture is drawn in froma carburetor through valve 19 and fed to chambers 7 as but also throughits pulsating movement,

described, in whichcase the oil supply chain here 26 would not be used.In another embodiment of my invention the oil supply chambers may beused as described and the carburetor dispensed with, the pulsating mo-'tion'of the revolving liquid being used to draw in and discharge aliquid as described withreference to Fig. 4.

release? The foregoing being a general descrip tion of the operation ofmy invention, 1 Will now proceed to explain in detail certain. parts ofthe operation and the principle involved, referring to the preferredembodiment illustrated .in Figs. 1., 2 and 3, it being assumed that theengine has been started and is in full operation, Water being used.First, as to the action of the Water in chamber 22, said Water beingdriven at a'high velocity by alternate explosions in the upper part ofcylinders 2 one 2 Cylinders 2 and 2 and chamber 22 are proportioned thatafter the explosion in one cylinder, and after the Water has ==cendriven out of said cylinder and has just started to enter the othercylinder, chamber 22- is nearly full of a rapidly re volving body ofWater. The centrifugal force of this rapidly revolving body of Water ofcourse tends to throw said Water against the outer side Wall of chamber22, which circular in form, and consequently leaves a comparativelysmall and more or less cylindrical air space surrounding shaft 3 in thecenter of chamber 22. T he amount of Water used should be such that nolarge quantity could Work into chamber 23, though a means would beprovided for draining said chamber 23 in case Water did enter therein.Now as the centrifugal force of the Water carries it through ports 6 andpassages 36 into cylinders 2 and 2 the central air space expands. asthis air space grows larger and larger on account of the receding Water,the density of the air contained therein must (.ecreasc and continue todecrease until the water uncovers air intake 19 when a charge of air orgas will be drawn in to fill the partial vacuum thus formed. At thispoint the explosion occurs in the second cylinder, driving the body ofwater back into chan'ibcr through port 6 at the necessary angle to makeit revolve therein. This couuparativcly large body of water enteringchandler again causes the central space to contract, and consequently alarge portion of the charge of air or in said central space must passthrou h valve :24; into chamber 23. A portion or the kinetic energyimparted to diskivheel or rotor by the Water entering chamber 22 throughports (3 Will be consumed in imparting centrifugal force to therevolving body of water and thus aid in securing the compressionrequired. it will thus be seen that the revolving body of Water inchamber Wires two functions, vim-opersting the disk-Wheel or rotor 4 andkeeping chamber 25% supplied with air or gas under pressure, and thewater forced into cylinders 2 and 2 by centrifugal force has threefunctions, viz,exhausting the burnt gases lirom said cylinders,compressing the era-- plosive charges in said cylinders, and operatingthe oil devices. Now, when the explosion has taken place in a cylinderand the water driven out thereof, the burnt gases exhaust to atmosphericpressure through valves 16 properly balanced for that purpose andnormally resting upon their upper seats 16. the water rises in thecylinder by virtue of the centrifugal force imparted to it as describedabove, it drives out more of the burnt gases through valves 16 untilsaid Water reaches them and closes them upon their lower seats 16*,passing on up to compression. The air or gas stored under compression inchamber 23 passes through pipes and valves -l0 into explosion chambers'7 when the burnt gases are suliiciently exhausted therefrom andpractically fills that portion of the cylinders above valves 16 untilcompressed by the returning Water. The force of an explosion at themoment of explosion is estimated to be about four times the compression,therefore it the rising water compresses the charge to 100 pounds persquare inch and the charge then exploded-said Water will be driven outwith a force of about lOO pounds per square inch. it will thus be seenthat, the charge being the same each time the compression will begreater and greater, and the Water will be driven out more and morerapidly and with greater and greater force, so that in order to keep thespeed down where required the quantity of oil fed to ports 9 isregulated by valves thus decreasing the richness of the explosivecharge. Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. in an internal combustionengine, the

combination of a body portion circular in- .plan having one or morecylinders attached thereto, a driving shaft and means of rotating saidshaft in said body portion, a fly Wheel attached to the upper end ofsaid shaft, a disk wheel keyed near the lower end of said shaft, a stepbearing at the lower end of said shaft, means of attaching said stepbearing to said body portion, a'plurality of circular disks, means forfastening said disks to said disk Wheel, means for discharging liquidthrough said disks, an explosion chamber in each cylinder, means forexploding the gases in said explosion chambers, a port dishing in thelower part there: of communicating with each of said explosion chambersand connecting the same with its respective explosion means, air intakevalves and means for operating said valves, a cartridge chamber, meansfor attaching a vacuum pump to said explosion chamber, as and for thepurpose described.

2. In an internal combusion engine, the combination of a body portionhavinr cne or more cylinders attached thereto, eac cylinder having ancfiset in which a plurality of exhaust valvesareset, said exhaustvalyesv having upper and lower seats, a OOHIPI'GSHIOD).

chamber formed in the upper portion ofeach cylinder and above saidexhaust valves said cylinders, a gage valve designating the .in whichthe gases are compressed and exploded, means for the admission of liquidtoheight of liquid in said cylinders, air intake Valves, a disk wheelChamber adapted to in- ,close a disk wheel, air storage chamber aboveand attached to said disk wheel chamber, a valve admitting air from saiddisk wheel chamber to said air storage chamber, as

' shown and described.

3. In an internal combustion engine, the

combination of a body portion having one or more cylinders attachedthereto, each of said cylinders having an explosion chamber formed inthe upper portion thereof, a disk .wheel chamber formedin said bodyportion,

an air storage chamber attached to said body portion, air pipes leadingfrom said storage chamber to air intake valves, oil supply cylinders andmeans for supplying oil throughsaid cylinders'to said explosionchambers, a float connected with the valves in said 011 supplycylinders, pipes leading from said oil supply cylinders to saidexplosion chambers, valves in said pipes to regulate the supply of oilto said explosion chambers, lower liquid outlets leading'from said diskwheel chamber to said cylinders, means for preventing liquid frompassing through said lower liqn'id outljets from said cylinders, meansfor holding-the air inlet valves in place, as and for the purposedescribed.

4; In an internal combustion engine, the

" combination ofa central chamber adapted to contain a revolving liquid,auxiliary chambers positioned about the periphery thereof, said centralchamber having ports communicating with each of said auxiliary chambersat such an angle as to direct a liquid passing from said auxiliarychambers to said central chamber around the periphery thereof, each ofsaid auxiliary chambers having a conduit communicatin with said centralchamber and an inlet vave adapted to permit the passage of liquid fromsaid conduit into said auxiliary chamber, said menses passage of fluidinto the central part of said,

central chamber upon reduction of pressure of a similar fluid containedtherein, and a valve controlled outlet for permitting the passage offluid from the. central partof said central chamber upon the increase ofpressure on said fluid, substantially as shown and described.

6. In an internal combustion engine, the

combination of a central chamber adapted to contain a revolving liquid,auxiliary chambers positioned about the periphery thereof, said centralchamber having ports communicating with each of said auxiliary chambersat such an angle as to direct a liquid passing from said auxiliarychambers to said central chamber around the periphery thereof, each ofsaid auxiliary chambers having a conduit communicating with said centralchamber and an inlet valve adapted to permit the passage of liquid fromsaid conduit into said auxiliary chamber, an explosion chamber formed inthe .outerend of each auxiliary chamber, said central chamber beingcircular in plan, of greater diameter than depth, and soproportionedwith relation to said auxiliary chambers that when saidrevolving liquid is increased or diminished in quantity therein byreason of said liquid passing from-or to said auxiliary chambers anincrease. or reduction of pressure is provided on a fluid contained inthe central part of said central chamber, a valve controlled inlet forpermitting the passage of fluid into the central part of said centralchamber upon reduction of pressure of a similar fluid contained therein,a valve controlled outlet for permitting the passage of fluid from thecentral part of said central chamber upon the increase of pressure onsaid fluid, a com pression chamber adapted to receive said expressedfluid, and valve controlled conduits for introducing said expressedfluid from said compression chamber to each of said explosion chambers,and a driving shaft and.

rotor revolubly mounted. in said central chamber adapted to be driven bysaid revolving liquid, substantially as shown and described.

'7. The combination with an internal combustion engine of the classdescribed having an explosion chamber and a reciprocating liquidcontained therein, of an oil supply cylinder communicating with theliquid in said engine, a float valve operatively posiinder to, theexplosion chamber of said an gine having a controlling valve positionedtherein.

In testirnony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

PONTUS OSTEN BERG.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. NAIsMITH, L. I. JONES.

